Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

by Kate DiCamillo

  He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true.

  Most of it would be true.

  Ulysses looked out the window and saw the sun glowing on the horizon. Soon it would be time to eat.

  A wonderful thought occurred to the squirrel.

  Maybe there would be donuts, giant donuts, for breakfast.

  Words for Flora

  Nothing

  would be

  easier without

  you,

  because you

  are

  everything,

  all of it —

  sprinkles, quarks, giant

  donuts, eggs sunny - side up —

  you

  are the ever - expanding

  universe

  to me.

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

  Text copyright © 2013 by Kate DiCamillo

  Illustrations copyright © 2013 by K. G. Campbell

  Excerpt from “Gott spricht zu jedem . . . / God speaks to each of us . . .” from Rilke’s Book of Hours:

  Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy,

  copyright © 1996 by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.

  Used by permission of Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted,

  or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic,

  electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.

  First electronic edition 2013

  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2012947748

  ISBN 978-0-7636-6040-6 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-0-7636-6724-5 (electronic)

  The illustrations were created in pencil.

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